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   The first record of Tardigrada from Zambia, with a description of Doryphoribius niedbalai n.sp. (Eutardigrada: Isohypsibiidae, the evelinae group)

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Krzysztof Zawierucha --- Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Poland Łukasz Michalczyk --- Department of Entomology, Poland Łukasz Kaczmarek --- Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Poland

   In three mixed samples (mosses and leaf litter) collected in Zambia (southern Africa), forty-three specimens and six eggs of eutardigrades were found. Among them, 29 specimens belonged to a new species of the family Isohypsibiidae, Doryphoribius niedbalai n.sp. The new...

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   Dactylobiotus luci, a new freshwater tardigrade (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from theRwenzori Mountains, Uganda

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Łukasz Kaczmarek --- Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Poland Łukasz Michalczyk --- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Biological Sciences, U.K. Hilde Eggermont --- Department of Biology, Limnology Unit, Belgium

   A new freshwater eutardigrade, Dactylobiotus luci is described from a permanent marsh pool (Zaphania’s Pool) at 4225 m elevation in the Alpine zone of the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda. The new species is most similar to D. dervizi Biserov, 1998 in...

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   The tardigrade fauna of Tunisia, with an integrative description of Bryodelphax maculatus sp. nov. (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae)

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Piotr Gąsiorek --- Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Poland Daniel Stec --- Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Poland Witold Morek --- Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Poland Jamila Marnissi --- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Tunisia Łukasz Michalczyk --- Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Poland

   The current knowledge of the diversity and distribution of tardigrade species in northern Africa is scarce and far from satisfactory. In this paper we review old and provide new faunistic records for various regions of Tunisia. Among the newly recorded...

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   First records of marine tardigrades (Arthrotardigrada) from Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain)

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Łukasz Kaczmarek --- Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Poland Paul Bartels --- Department of Biology, Warren Wilson College, USA Milena Roszkowska --- Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Poland

   Marine tardigrades are very poorly known and up to now only c. 200 taxa have been reported around the world (mostly from European coasts). In a marine algae sample, collected on the coast of Fuerteventura island (Atlantic Ocean, Canary Islands),...

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